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Site Description<\/h3>\n

This site encompasses the upper reaches of the Pecatonica River watershed, a rolling landscape with a network of stream systems cutting through the hills.\u00a0 Formerly the core of the largest prairie in Wisconsin, the site is now largely agricultural.\u00a0 Significantly, large areas of prairie pasture and pastured savanna have retained the landscape\u2019s extensive open aspect and importance to grassland and savanna bird populations.\u00a0 Native prairie remnants, wooded savanna, pastured floodplain and sedge meadow, and cropland also are present.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This IBA is one of three focus areas targeted for grassland bird conservation in the WDNR\u2019s Southwest Grassland and Stream Conservation Area, a landscape-scale project aiming to protect functioning grassland, savanna, and stream ecosystems.\u00a0 It harbors some of the best grassland and savanna bird populations in the state, including upland sandpiper, red-headed woodpecker, willow flycatcher, Bell\u2019s vireo, brown thrasher, sedge wren, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, field sparrow, bobolink, and dickcissel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Pecatonica River Prairie, photo by Andy Paulios<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description This site encompasses the upper reaches of the Pecatonica River watershed, a rolling landscape with a network of stream systems cutting through the hills.\u00a0 Formerly the core of the largest prairie in Wisconsin, the site is now largely agricultural.\u00a0 Significantly, large areas of prairie pasture and pastured savanna have retained the landscape\u2019s extensive… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-535","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/535\/revisions\/537"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}